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IRIS Software Group

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IRIS Software Group reviews

3.7

66% would recommend to a friend

(864 total reviews)
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Jason Dies

75% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

IRIS Software Group has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 864 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The IRIS Software Group employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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864 reviews
2.0
Dec 3, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You get occasional bonuses depending on your performance

Cons

Everything really, not a great place to work

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IRIS Software Group Response
4y
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review, although we are disappointed by your comments. We are proud to operate a range of generous bonus and commission schemes to recognise and reward hard work. We also offer an extensive and varied UK benefits package, including company-funded private healthcare, life insurance, income protection, employee assistance programme, mental health provisions and discounted gym memberships, matched pension with NI uplift, our electric car scheme and many other opt-in benefits our employees can choose from. We use a monthly feedback tool called Peakon to ensure that all suggestions, concerns and ideas are listened to and we were delighted that, in the past 12 months, employees shared more than 31,000 comments with managers posting more than 28,000 updates, responses, and follow-up questions. This has seen our employee engagement rise significantly year on year. We are very proud to be officially recognised as a Great Place To Work™ for the second year running and one of the UK’s Best Workplaces™ in 2021. We’re always looking for ways we can be the best we can be, and we would welcome any further suggestions. Please speak to your HR representative, contact EmployeeFeedback@iris.co.uk or leave a comment in our next Peakon survey. Kind regards, the HR team
3.0
Nov 30, 2021

Ok

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good experience obtained in software space.

Cons

They main con was the remuneration.

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IRIS Software Group Response
4y
Thank you so much for taking the time to leave a review. We are delighted that you gained great experience while working at IRIS. As one of the UK’s largest private software companies we are proud to provide mission-critical software for HR and payroll teams, accountancy firms and educational organisations. Paying our employees fairly and competitively for their hard work is of the upmost importance to us, and we're delighted to be officially recognised as a Real Living Wage employer. On top of this, we run an annual salary review process, offer pay scales in select departments to automatically reward employees when they hit career milestones, provide bonus and commission schemes where eligible, and provide a generous benefits, holiday and charitable volunteering package to all UK employees. This year we are delighted to give our IRIS employees an early finish on Christmas Eve so that they can spend time with their family and loved ones. Additionally, for our skeleton crews, they will receive half a day in lieu of the new year. We were also excited to hold a few Christmas office parties for each site, as well as hosting our online Big Fat IRIS Christmas quiz so that everyone could get involved! We also encouraged our employees to wear a Christmas jumper to get into the festive spirit and support Save the Children through our donation page!
1.0
Nov 29, 2021

Awful

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-The teams on the front line are friendly and always helpful.

Cons

- Training feels like a speedrun with no real education of the products a department supports - Seemed to be an congealment of software businesses with no set practice - The team i worked with had no documentation of existing products so that you dont have any reference material, and seems like you have to bug your colleagues which slows down calls to ask how to resolve an issue for software youve never seen. - Training was poor and was only given a couple of days of training, for a department that has 100s of bits of software for basic processes that accounts for at most 10% of your job. - Manager was not existent only seem them once after starting (stayed for a month). - It feels like your a cog within a cog, within a cog within another cog -The top seems disconnected from the bottom, with a training person coming to train us for a piece of software that was more time consuming and only 5% of the customers for software for this department. - Honestly progression seems slow with TLs being 5 years in the job and manager in 7+ which seems normal but considering the front line job is basically a call centre job where turn over seems high.

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IRIS Software Group Response
4y
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review, although we are surprised and disappointed by your comments. We are proud to run an extensive induction training for our Customer Support team that usually lasts 2-4 weeks, depending on the products. This is delivered by our Customer Service experts who are able to bring the training to life with their own experiences. The training is a blend of customer service, legislation, product and process training with practical activities. There are also opportunities to shadow experienced colleagues, so that your learning journey continues in the role with regular up-skill training. In addition, to support our employees and build their knowledge, we have recently launched a brand-new IRIS help hub, which provides individual help centres for our range of products. This includes 18 help centres which provide information and knowledge articles on the products for both colleagues and customers. Our content design team are continually working with the business to grow the number of help centres available. We are also delighted to provide a variety of routes for progression, from increasing product knowledge as a Customer Analyst, joining management within Customer Services, or moving to our Professional Services, Development, or Product teams. Since the start of 2021, we are proud to have celebrated 45 promotions, role changes, and horizontal moves in Customer Support. For our high performers, we have launched our annual High Potential Programme to provide our employees with opportunities to progress their careers with us, through networking sessions, webinars, and other development activities We are sorry to hear that this was not your experience. If you would like to discuss in more detail, please reach out to Imogen Mitten, your dedicated HR representative. We’re always looking for ways we can be the best we can be, and we would encourage you to contact EmployeeFeedback@iris.co.uk with any further comments. Kind regards, the HR team.
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